Colossians 2:20

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as if living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to decrees,

Colossians 2:8

Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;

Colossians 2:14

having blotted out the hand-writing in decrees against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross;

Colossians 2:16

Let no one, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new moon, or sabbaths,

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.

John 15:19

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.

John 17:14-16

I have given them Thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Romans 6:2-11

It could not be! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer therein?

Romans 7:4-6

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For, though walking in flesh, we are not warring according to the flesh,

Galatians 2:19-20

For I through law died to law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 4:9-12

but, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how are ye turning back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again?

Galatians 6:14

But it could not be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has become crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments expressed in decrees, that He might make the two one new man in Himself, making peace,

Colossians 3:3

for ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by manifold and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who occupied themselves were not profited.

James 4:4

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Peter 4:1-3

Christ, therefore, having suffered in flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind; because he who suffered in flesh has ceased from sin;

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the evil one.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

General references

Bible References

If

Colossians 3:3
for ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.
Romans 6:2
It could not be! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.
Galatians 2:19
For I through law died to law, that I might live to God.
Galatians 6:14
But it could not be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has become crucified to me, and I to the world.
1 Peter 4:1
Christ, therefore, having suffered in flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind; because he who suffered in flesh has ceased from sin;

From

Colossians 2:8
Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;
Ephesians 2:15
having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments expressed in decrees, that He might make the two one new man in Himself, making peace,

Living

John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them Thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For, though walking in flesh, we are not warring according to the flesh,
James 4:4
Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the evil one.

Subject

Colossians 2:14
having blotted out the hand-writing in decrees against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross;
Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.
Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried away by manifold and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who occupied themselves were not profited.

General references

Luke 5:38
But new wine must be put into fresh skins.